It’s here – get your copy of Office 2011 Today!
Today you can officially get your copy of Office for Mac 2011! I couldn’t be more proud of the Office for Mac team and of the product we’ve created. Office 2011 continues our team’s mission to connect Mac users to their counterparts who use Windows. Office enables users across platforms to work anywhere, anytime – to build their ideas into reality. Office 2011 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Messenger and now for the first time in the suite, Outlook for Mac.
As with its predecessors – a big emphasis in developing Office 2011 was listening to and incorporating your feedback. More than anything, you told us that performance is a top priority; you need to be able to open your applications and get things done with speed and ease. The team rose to that challenge, and my favorite thing about Office 2011 is just how zippy it is. Whether you are using Office 2011 at work, at school or at home – you’ll notice the improved launch speeds and other performance enhancements as you accomplish your tasks.
There is a lot of greatness to Office 2011 and we hope that you will soon get to experience it for yourself, but I wanted to share a few of the highlights:
Access Your Office Anywhere: Office 2011 has new built-in integration to existing Microsoft cloud-based applications – the free Windows Live SkyDrive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Office Web Apps – giving users more flexibility and control to work when and where they want. Office Web Apps lets users work in any browser from any location with internet connectivity while making sure your document stays the way it was created whether it’s viewed on a PC or Mac.
Teamwork at the Office or Across the World: Users now have the tools they need to work with others on documents without the worry of their changes getting lost after multiple rounds of updates. The new co-authoring tools let users edit the same Word document or PowerPoint presentation simultaneously with other people in different locations who are using Office on a PC or a Mac. Also, new to Office 2011 (and in Office 2010) users can quickly share their presentations with anyone who has browser access by broadcasting their presentation.
A Professional Touch: The suite also provides new and improved tools that make it easier than ever to create a professional-looking document. With new photo editing tools throughout the suite there’s no need to leave the Office applications to create visuals that impress. And with our new Dynamic Reorder tool it provides an instant 3-D view of all layers on the active PowerPoint slide or Word Publishing Layout view page to allow users to simply drag photos, graphics, or text to rearrange the content. And you’ll especially appreciate the performance of Office 2011 when using these professional tools- even the most powerful features in Office feel light and snappy.
So with that I would like to thank everyone for their support and if you are looking to get your hands on a copy, Office 2011 is which is available today at Apple, Amazon.com, Best Buy and MacMall.com as well as OfficeforMac.com http://www.microsoft.com/mac/. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the new Office for Mac 2011!
-Eric Wilfrid
General Manager, Office for Mac
Yet still not available via Technet… what gives, all other MS software ends up on MSDN and Technet weeks prior to GA yet the MacBU can’t treat the software as a first class citizen, how are we supposed to test this stuff?
I’d love to, except it’s not available via VLSC for me yet, or via MSDN.
It keeps showing Office 2008, even though I have SA for my Office licenses.
I see Word 14.01 (2011) still does not maximize correctly. Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint all maximize correctly.
If you have a small screen maximizing a window can give you more usable space. Therefore, having the ability to fully maximize a window improves usability.
My clients and I are just asking that Word maximize correctly just like Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Word’s fails to maximize the program window correctly. This problem carries over from 2008. In 2008 Word, Excel, PowerPoint had this problem. Now in 2011 Word continues to have this almost three year old problem and you cannot get Word to remember the Maximized window position. Word 2011 still leaves a small gap of about 1mm on the left side of the Word window and about a 1mm gap between the top of the Word window and the OS X menu
Microsoft has known about this problem for at least a year. My clients and I have been reporting this problem in Word for over a year now. I purchased Office 2011 because an MS employee mentioned in Ars Technica that he thought this problem had been resolved. He was correct, the problem has been resolved in Excel and PowerPoint but not Word. I would like this problem and others fixed in the worst way. I am tired of having to move the Word window up and to the left and then expand the window to the right and downward each time I fire up Word just to have a maximized screen.
My clients and I are not the only ones who care about this issue:
Christian, also posted the following on Mactopia:
“I was a bit of annoyed when I realized that the Position of a new Word document still has a small gap to the left screen edge and to the top OSX menu as well – same as in Word 2008! Come on – this bug is fixed in Excel 2011 and Powerpoint 2011 – why not Word as well?”
YouTube:
“I know that always bugged me! Since I have a 13inch screen I always wanted to get it fully maximized on start up!”
Ars Technica:
“When I open a window, its default position is separated from the toolbars by a few pixels. If I click the green Zoom button, the right edge of the windows goes _almost_ to the right edge of the screen, but not quite. It’s as if someone at Microsoft is deliberately flouting Fitt’s Law:
In this position, “missing” a toolbar click or title bar drag by a few pixels can end of bringing a different application to the fore. Ditto missing the right scrollbar. I can’t imagine a use case where a user would want to click into the tiny little crevice between a document and its toolbar to bring out the window hiding behind it. I also can’t imagine a use case where the user mouses all the way over to the right side of the screen with the intention of _just_ missing the scrollbar. But I have experience many real-world cases where such behavior annoys this particular use immensely.”
(Note: For clarity purposes I substituted window for workbook)
Will it be available via a Technet subscription?
Will there be a trial for Office for Mac 2011?
When will it arrive on MSDN? and where will it be when it arrives? (There’s no Mac section)
Such a shame that the Messenger 8 IM window still has those clunky borders. No updated emoticons or sounds either.
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere in the Office or PowerPoint literature, so i thought i’d ask this here:
Does PowerPoint 2011 support multiple master slides the way PowerPoint does on Windows? This has been a long-standing issue of mine, working in a collaborative, multi-platform environment. Having only one slide master and one title master in PowerPoint on the Mac was a SERIOUS limitation and one that i hope has been addressed. If not, this needs to be at the top of your list!
When is the trial available?
I am really excited about Office for Mac 2011, but upgrade pricing is conspicuously missing. I purchased the 2008 business edition (for ~$400) when I bought my new MacBook in April, 2010. My anticipation was that I would be able to upgrade to 2011 at upgrade pricing. Since upgrade pricing is missing, and I purchased before Aug 1, 2010, am I to understand that my $400 dollar application is now outdated and there is no upgrade path for me without spending an additional $275?
Very nice! can’t wait to have
When will the trial be released? I can hardly wait to test drive it….
Can’t wait to try the new office 2011 for Mac!!! Woo Hoo……
Hello,
I’m really looking forward to this release.
But I was under impression it will be available on Technet Subscription. Yet it’s still missing.
So… can we expect that, please (and when)?
THX.
I heard rumors about Technet download availability – any truth?
For those of us who bought Office 2008 with the included upgrade, when are we likely to receive the upgrade disk?
Any chance that you finally added (even rudimentary) RTL support?
We just need a simple right to left button, no need for fancy UI changes or menu translations…
Please… (after all it is 2011 already…)
Eric,
Can you share insight on why the Project Center has been abandoned in this new release? This is a major oversight. As you’ll recall, Project Center was a major feature set in Mac Office 2008. This allowed for team based collaboration on projects. I’ve used this extensively with my teams to manage as many as 100 simultaneous projects. This offered business efficiencies which could not be obtained with any other solution including MS Sharepoint server that lacked Safari compatibility. (MS Sharepoint Team themselves rely on a 3rd party project management solution – PMPoint !
What will now happen to the Entourage project archives?
At this point, unless I’m missing something, I feel that upgrading to this version will result in a dramatic decrease is business productivity.
Look forward to your reply.
Alex
I’m going out on a limb here, but I think the initial reason Project Center was left out is the implementation of Live Skydrive support.
I must say finding out that Outlook in Office 2011 did not support Exchange 2003 was a major let down. My Mac users hate Entourage and have been awaiting the release of this product basically for Outlook. As a shop still running Exchange 2003 there is really no longer an reason to implement it. Sorry but, can’t spring for new licensing and hardware simply to use one application.
Nick: C’mon. Exchange 2003 is 7+ years old. You cannot expect MS to support everything back to Win 3.11…
Exchange 2007&2010 both have tons of really good stuff and 2010 especially is very flexible. Perhaps you should move Exchange to cloud…
Sorry to whine but why is VBA only available in Excel? I would like to customize Outlook more extensively. This omission is a big disappointment to what is otherwise a really great set of apps. What do you suggest as an alternative approach to building add-ins to Outlook?
All office 2010 for Windows incorporate VBA. Don’t understand why not on the Mac version.
As a student and home user are you really telling me I have to pay $100 plus just to have the email client. I was going to upgrade from 2008 right away but now with the pricing for Home users and students not allowing for an email client, I guess I won’t.
When will the free upgrade download be available?
I’m excited for Office 2011, but I’ll be honest: no discounted upgrade path for 2008 users is straight up lame.
I bought Office 2008 on the promise of a free upgrade to 2011. How and when shall we know how to obtain our upgrade?
I assume as there is no mention, that Business Contact Manager is NOT supported.
Are there any plans to include this going forward, this is the one thing that still holds many small businesses back.
It’s way too expensive.
Also I purchased Office 2008 for mac less than 1 year ago and there’s no upgrade option?
How much will I have to pay to get a version without the requirement of activation?
YEAH. I like it. Can I install Mac:Office 2011 in fifty years again, when you perhaps stopped your activation servers??
Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t like piracy. But, firstly, if my macbook crashes, how do I get Office on my next mac. I don’t want to buy Office again. Secondly, I want to keep my macbook for fifty years
Apple does not require activation in iworks. Tell me why I should use your software, when I don’t know whether I can use it in a few years again. I heard horror stories from Adobe: http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/493/i-hate-adobe-activation
Will this happen with Mac:Office 2011 too?
Just curious, will I still have to download Solver and StatsPlus with Excel? Or, is all the data analysis included like on the PC version of MS of MS Office?
Thank you!
How do I go about reporting a bug? Either I have to pay for support (which I don’t need.) or, I just assume that by not providing some form of feedback on the website that my bug is not that important?
How about fixing the bugs introduced by 12.2.7?
-The download pictures link in Entourage does not appear unless the user resizes the window.
-Microsoft Auto Update no longer works.
The Home and Business 2011 includes comparable applications to the Student version from 2004, but with a considerable difference in price.
And no upgrade path?
I have Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition. A discounted upgrade path would have been nice.
I’ll keep using my 2008 and 2004 versions for another year or so. I like Microsoft, but I’m thoroughly unimpressed by this release.
Can you please me explain why Office for Mac isn’t available in Portuguese, a language natively spoken by 210 millions of people in the world, and the first language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe?
Lets see the numbers: Danish (6 M), Dutch (22 M), English (400 M), Finnish (6 M), French (200 M), German (120 M), Italian (70 M), Japanese (120 M), Norwegian (5 M), Spanish (400 M) and Swedish (10 M)…
I’ll not buy Office 2011 because of this. I can wait for the next version of iWork.
Love the new Office, but am disappointed that you can not blog directly into SharePoint……Back to bootcamp!
Hi,
thanks for making it available on MSDN – but the download and product key generation is not working…. download of communicator is a no-brainer, but the office package download is not starting…. too much mac enthusiast on MSDN?
any chance for help?
Thanks,
schroeder
Pfft, no Onenote.
I still don’t understand why there is no Onenote for mac.
So i am still sticking with running Windows Office in Parallels but I guess you guys don’t care as that’s still another copy of office sold.
Thanks for putting it up on MSDN. Downloading now !
Downloading from Digital River AU at <20kb/sec (over 12 hours)….very disappointing…..quicker to walk to an Apple Store.
@Ido
According to comments made on an earlier blog entry, the answer is “no” regarding RTL.
http://blog.officeformac.com/?p=285
I was excited to buy my new Office Mac 2011. Purchased it at Best Buy in San Francisco. Went home and tried to get my Product Key and the message said I had to return to the store. Called the Geek Squad at Best Buy who said for me to contact Microsoft. Contacted Microsoft who said to wait at least four hours (“there were problems”). Waited and tried again – still not working. Called Microsoft again who said they will try to get back to me within a few days.
Seems like there are some problems somewhere in the chain of delivery. Best Buy says it is all Microsoft. Microsoft says we have many people experiencing this issue – so be patient.
The Math Equation option is extremely buggy. It fails 90% when you try working on it. Too bad, because the rest seems to be OK. It loads fast and overall works well.
I wholeheartedly echo the other comments on this page: MS Office for Mac 2010 will not be purchased by my organization until sync services is available for calendar. It’s the most essential part of the sync package and a deal breaker for our work environment. We do not have an Exchange server, and the calendar sync feature is critical to our daily work. Please release asap. All due respect to the bugs (oh, the number of times has my database lost the ‘truth’!) in the current sync services, but without this update, imperfect as it might be, we can’t use the new MS Office suite.
I would like to know how can I proceed to the upgrade download, as promised when I acquired Office 2008 for Mac.
its AAAMAMMAAZZIINNGG,, ITS JUST LIKE WINDOWS OFFICE
Ditto on the earlier comment about upgrade pricing. I have 10 copies of this in our studio. We have spent close to $350 on every copy. Now I have to pay an additional $275 per copy?
I really do hope you are planning on releasing upgrade pricing. Since I doubt this was simply an “oversight”. I would appreciate a deeper explanation.
Any idea when it’ll show up in the Home Use Program?
Advance reviews said I could ditch the cartoon interface and use the menus. I even saw it in videos on line. Now I have the product. The menus are visible at startup, but disabled. Then they go away. There’s no way to bring them back that I can find. The menus are in the program but not accessible!
Your welcome email said “work the way you want.” I want to work with menus. I refuse to use the ribbon, because I’d just have to relearn it with every release. Your “innovative” UIs are never stable–I remember Money all too well.
At one point, I owned every piece of software you manufactured, but one by one, you ruined them, and I had to find alternatives. I was a Microsoft fanboy, but you worked very hard to earn my enmity. Office is all that is left.
Give me a positive experience with Microsoft for a change. Show me how to stomp the ribbon dead and use the menus.
Another failure by Microsoft.
Waited years for this update and in the end it still does not support RTL languages such as Arabic.
Microsoft should call it quits and get into another line of business.
Microsoft Office 2011 is ‘available’?? Really???!!!!!
I bought 2008 and am eligible for the 2011 upgrade. I goto the web site provided http;//www.microsoft.com/mac/techg and IT WON”T ACCEPT MY 2008 product keys. It says:
“Product key entered has previously been used…”
Of course it has previously been used!!! It is my Office 2008 PKey! What was I supposed to do “Buy 2008 and then NOT use it?!” Who is the tiny brained micro engineer that came up with that one?
This is AFTER I completed the “REGISTERED MY OFFICE FOR mAC 2011″ process and got a Customer Number that proves I registered it.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH MICROSOFT? ARE THEY TRYING TO ALIENATE EXISTING CUSTOMERS SO THAT APPLE WILL HAVE A BIGGER SHARE OF THE WP MARKET?
While I cheer the upgrades and improvements, I’m sort of surprised you have apparently have abandoned Project Central. I use this today to manage my projects and it has been really useful. I’ve always been surprised that Windows Office didn’t offer something like it. It’s quite different from Project. Much less overhead and Project still rocks for when you need that kind of thing. I likely won’t move forward with Office due to that for the foreseeable future, as I can’t easily switch projects.
or did I miss something on this?
Im enjoying the new look Office and its one less reason to boot up my Windows Machine for 2007. However, all my subtle gradient effects in Excel cells have all but disappeared, and it seems there isn’t a way of actually. Can ‘fill effects’ be brought into Excel and tables within Word at a later update? It already exists when creating the fill for shapes so I cant see how hard it is to implement this into table cells much like the Windows component.
What’s the time frame for this appearing in HUP?
Co-worker got this:
“Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Home Use Program online store.
We understand that you want to know when will Office for Mac 2011 be
available through the Home Use Program and we appreciate your interest.
Office for Mac will be available by January of 2011….”
Ouch!
Haven’t seen it on TechNet yet either….
Question: does Powerpoint’11 allow slide annotation? In other words, I would like to use a tablet with powerpoint such that during a presentation, I can “mark up” the current slide. The annotations should be saved as I move from slide to slide, and I should be able to export the annotations (with the slides) to PDF. This is a feature that has been supported on older PC versions of Powerpoint; it is the essential feature I am looking for in this version. I cannot determine if this is supported from your website. Hope to hear from you. Thank you.
Have installed the new 2011 software (did a removal of 2008 before installed this new version). Install went fine, but I must say that Outlook has crashed a dozen times since installing less than 24 hours ago. And random crashes (not the same steps each time). Usually though, it involves deleting messages, closing messages, using keyboard shortcuts (like Command-W), etc.
It’s been long enough that these things should not be so unstable.
Dear Eric,
I purchased a copy of MS Office for Mac Home+Student Edition this
Autumn.
One of the main reason for the purchase was the promise that I would be entitled to upgrade Office for Mac 2008 to Office for Mac 2011 for FREE.
The other MAIN reason for the purchase was because I had LONGED to have Outlook on my Mac as opposed to Entourage.
At no point during my research online ahead of my purchase (to include the FREE upgrade) was I warned that the upgrade would not include Outlook 2011 or the fact that the cost of getting Outlook 2011 would work out at an eye-watering £130.00
I feel that Microsoft have acted in a most CYNICAL, underhand way using slight-of-hand to fool honest and loyal Apple customers.
If the Office for Mac 2008, Home and Student Edition included a Email
Client (Entourage), isn’t it logical to assume that an upgrade would
also include an e-mail client too? So much for the Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee. Guaranteed to be ripped off more like.
Given the current econimic climate, the radically changed tech/software marketplace it seems that Microsoft remain so far behind the curve as to exisit in a world that’s still flat. If I were of the likes of Google, I’d see this as a huge oppurtunity to steal market share from Microsoft by releasing a free E-mail client for Mac/Windows. As OpenOffice has proved at my own workplace – Microsoft’s position is not as unassailable as it once was
Why does Microsoft feel it’s necessary to cheat customers?
Even the link, explaining how to presumably purchase Outlook separately simply takes you to the Mactopia home page with no clear route for customers who’d unwittingly purchased Office for Mac Home and Student thinking they’d get the same suite of software with the much vaunted “Free” upgrade.
I am huge DISAPPOINTED and will now reconsider ever buying another Microsoft product. I will NOT recommending MS Office for Mac to my many friends and an tempted to employ a cynical campaign of my own on Facebook to alert others to Microsofts devious ways.
A sincerely disgruntled EX-customer.
what’s wrong with MS at the moment? there’s already a review in the biggest German PC magazine telling the world to wait for SP1 because outlook constantly crashes. and yes, I am working since 10h GMT+1 this morning, large mailbox size, every second sent CRASH. more than 15 crashes on day one…
disappointed.
I have 5 computers: 3 with Intel and 2 with G4s or G5s. I am considering upgrading to Office 2011 throughout. I use Apple Mail, not Outlook or Entourage. My 2 kids (on the PPCs) are students. I have a home business. What package is most appropriate?
- Does 2011 work on PPC?
- Does the Home&Business version provide me with any features that I can use beyond the Home&student version?
- Is there a 5-pack available?
Outlook 2001 is very disappointing when working with Exchange 2007:
1) kerberos authentication doesn’t work (but works with finder for accessing file shares)
2) Tasks are not compatible with their windows counterpart: I can’t delegate tasks to other Exchange users, and I can’t accept or decline tasks from windows users
3) While I can browse the public folder hierarchy I can’t access their content
And overall I get the feeling that Mail+iCal+Address Book are still doing better (speed and reliability)
Love the product so far, except Outlook does not connect to ES-2007 at my city work address. We’ve had ES-2007 and regardless of method of authenticating automatically or setting up manually, the account just sits there and does nothing.
Turning on error logging does not capture the issue either; so in this respect (and yes I’ve already posted to Support as well) it doesn’t work…i’ve never had this much trouble connecting or building an email account before.
Great product. Outlook 2011 is great. But one problem: Why can’t we customize the Ribbon or Toolbar? I manage various inboxes and want to have shortcuts there just as I have it on my Windows Outlook or even on Entourage 2008. Pls fix that soon! And keep improving.
@Ken,
I believe the 2011 is Intel only. I still use a PPC, as do plenty of friends and colleagues.Many Mac developers still offer PPC versions of their software, but apparently not Microsoft.
The Home/Business includes Outlook. The Student version does not. The former includes 1 year of support, while the latter offers 90 days.
This is the least attractive Office for Mac upgrade I remember. 2008 was bad because of the lack of VBA support, but this one makes me want to completely switch to the Windows version. Is that Microsoft’s strategy?
If you have a Mac and use a Blackberry and were hoping to use Outlook to sync your information you need to wait on the purchase. I just bought Office for Mac 2011 primarily for Outlook and since discovered the only thing that will sync are the contacts evidently due to a change MS made on their end. I never used Entourage but it sounds like while Outlook has many enhancements—syncing is not one of them. I should have checked closer before plunking down my money and by all the posts I have been reading I’m not alone. Buyer beware.
Will the Access 2007 or 2010 Runtime Environment run on this version?
I bought 2008 in February this year for $200 – it has to be the greatest piece of crap I’ve ever used -i still need to use my Windows laptop when I work in office. Now these mongrels want me to shell out another $209 for a version that’s akin to 2007.
BTW – haven’t you realised (it’s not a typo, there is no “Z” in realised) the AU $ is near parity for the US $ – so how come I can get it for $149 on a US website.
Ripped off
Hi everyone – We’re very excited about Office for Mac 2011 and really appreciate all of your feedback. There are a lot of good questions and comments about the new features and we are working on responding to all of them.
For those asking about TechNet and MSDN, Office for Mac is available via both now. If you haven’t already, please try again and let us know if you encounter further problems. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/enterprise
@David, @R and @Donovan Krebs: Unfortunately, there is no trial version of OFM 2011.
@Mark: Unfortunately, there is no upgrade pricing available, unless you’re approved for our technology guarantee program if you purchased Office 2008 for Mac on or after August 1, 2010.
@lucapettini and @Heather Hess: Thanks for the support! We can’t wait for you to try it out and tell us what you think.
@Paul: You will be notified by e-mail when your registration is validated. You’ll need to visit this site before Dec. 31 to request your upgrade: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/office-2008-upgrade. From there, you will have the choice to download Office for Mac 2011 at no additional cost, or purchase a DVD.
@Ido: Unfortunately, that addition didn’t make it into this release. Though the suite will be adding new language support, there will not be full RTL support for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Due to technology limitations on the text input tools, Office for Mac 2011’s Unicode support won’t include right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic.
@Alex F: We’re always looking at what productivity apps Mac users need and want, however with this release we focused on Office 2011 which offers Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook for Mac.
@Brian Cross: You’re welcome. Hope you enjoy it!
Please stay tuned for updates on more of your questions and thanks for your patience!
I am echoing several comments before that complain about the disappearance of Project Central. I use this extensively in Entourage, and since Microsoft decided to abandon Entourage, I am choosing to abandon this version of Microsoft Office. Since all the other tools in Office can be obtained with similar functionality for a much cheaper price (even free for open source variations of Word, Excel and Powerpoint).
I also agree with others that eliminating Outlook from the Home or Student versions is a completely poor move. I understand that the Windows version of Office is bundled similarly. The Home and Student version does not include Outlook, but at least this bundle includes OneNote which is an advantage over the Home and Student version of Mac Office. Yet the Home and Business version for Windows includes OneNote and Outlook, while the Mac Office Home and Business version only adds Outlook over the applications packaged with the Home and Student version, and for the same price. While the Mac offering is priced exactly as it’s cross-platform brethren, the features are less impressive. Seems to me that this gives the Mac community a disadvantage.
I’m very disappointed with this seemingly “loveable” version of Office.
I also purchased the 2008 edition with the expectation of the free upgrade to 2011.
It seems that there has been some opaque promises here as the home and student package I bought with 3 licences for my 2 macs seems to only entitle me to one 2011 licence – this can’t be right. How can I ensure that I receive the new Family Edition when I upgrade on-line?
Unbelievable, I purchased the 2008 version earlier this month with a promise that I could upgrade to 2011. I have tried everything and 2011 will not accept the product keys. I have entered three of them many times and they all come up as invalid. After downloading and not being able to use, I set them up as trials and then tried to activate with no success. When I went to the help chat/email, they would not accept the numbers either and want to charge me $39. This is a real screw up on Micorsofts part. I should learn to stick with my Apple products and screw Microsoft for their misrepresentation .
I’ve been looking forward to the release of this product for a long time. All the problems users are having doesn’t give me much confidence in the product. Lots of error messages, crashing and other issues. Is this normal for a newly released product? It seems like some of the problems and holes in the software are “how could you miss this?”.
Please advise a less than excited potential buter.
Thanks-
asf66
Outlook keeps crashing while doing different activities. Had imported from 12.2.7 Entourage. File size 3.6 Gb. Is there an issue here????
12.2.7 kept crashing as well after the update from 12.2.6 (which was very stable) and the prime reason for me to move top OFM 2011. Seems I have made a huge mistake. Whats up Microsoft………
A very dis-appointed customer……..
WHERE IS ONENOTE? IS THIS SOME KIND OF A JOKE???
AND, NO, I’M NOT A MOUTHBREATHER WHO TYPES IN ALL CAPS, I AM ACTUALLY SCREAMING THIS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS AS I TYPE.
WHY MICROSOFT? WHY????
Seriously, we want OneNote. Take a poll or something. I’m not the only one.
Are you kidding me Outlook is not included in the Student version? And no option to upgrade to get it. This seems like an incredibly poor move by Microsoft. What genius thought it would be a good idea to either gouge customers for another $279 for Outlook or force them to use any of a number of free mail clients. You driving more distance between customers and Microsoft. Wake up Microsoft! You are killing yourself. Outlook should be included in all versions.
Very disappointed by the lack of upgrade pricing Microsoft. Quite frankly, I am surprised there is not more of an outcry from customers about this.
You’ve taken what would have been a defacto upgrade ocross our studio and turned it into an evaluation of how much we need the new version or how much we can get by with other tools like iWork.
We’ve bought every version that came out for years. Now it’s just too spendy. You made some great step forward with this release and the mac audience. But it just seems like every time you take 1 step forward you end up taking 2 back.
Just looking at the screenshots throughout your product website, I am disappointed with this new version. The first and most obvious is the large amount of vertical screen space lost to toolbars and menus. The vertical working space is down to maybe 3/4 or 2/3 of the vertical screen while there is often empty space off to the sides. Take advantage of the greater quantity of horizontal screen space and place toolbars to the sides instead. Why not learn from Photoshop (or, oh gosh, old versions of MS Office) and use floating toolbars even. Some may try to claim the visual aspect of working top to bottom, but I would much rather save time not having to scroll up and down constantly to work through my document.
This version also seems to take many elements from the windows version of MS Office (2007 I think, or later). They put the new MS Office on my computer at work with all its buttons, tabs, and large icons. After a few weeks, I demanded that they replace MS Office 2003 back onto my computer because all that stuff was poorly laid out (logically and visually), took up lots of screen space (not every office uses 20 inch and larger monitors, much less for all of us with laptops), and oddly enough ran slower (especially opening up the software).
Personally, I will continue to hold onto my Office for Mac X. It is clean, well laid out, powerful, and fast. I can create research documents and multimedia layout on it as appropriate for the tool. Anything more sophisticated and I just switch to the software more appropriate for the task. If only Excel Solver didn’t routinely crash when I used it in school.
Oh, one last thing. THANK YOU for finding a replacement Solver add-on for Excel. That is such a wonderful tool.
Disappointed that Outlook isn’t included as standard now. Even more disappointed after paying for the upgrade that it doesn’t even work. Outlook signatures don’t work, it only replies from the default account. That’s 5 minutes of fault finding, can’t wait to discover everything that doesn’t work.
Outlook crashes and crashes, Excel is painfully slow!
Are you kidding me? No upgrade pricing available? Is MS really expecting people to buy a full new copy instead of upgrading their MSO 2008?
And on top of that, no trial. What the …. are they thinking.
Here I am, with my 2008 legal copy, thinking about upgrading but have no legal way of testing it. And i can’t upgrade for a reasonable price. Are they really believing that i will spend many hundred dollars on something i can’t even test.
*sigh* And they still wonder why people don’t like MS.
hi, I am surprised to see that you do not offer an upgrade discount for existing 2008 users who want to migrate to 2011. Do you really expect that many people who have paid $400 not so long ago, will pay again $275 now? Fortunately there are other office suites than Microsoft…
I CAN’T SEE ALL OF MY EMAIL ATTACHMENTS!
I imported a .pst file from my PC (Windows 7, Outlook 2007) using “import” in Outlook Office:Mac 2011 on my new MacBook pro I purchased Sept 29, 2010.
I can see attachments from emails that originated from PCs but not from Apple Entrourage 2004….. Arrrrrggghhhhhh!!
IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS? ANY FIXES?
I called tech support for Outlook Office:Mac 2011 and they said this may be addressed in an update.
Thanks for the info about Arabic and Hebrew.
Can you tell us whether keyboard input is possible in Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Tamil, Thai, or Tibetan?
(These scripts are supported by all other OS X apps and also by Word for Windows.)
Is Communicator going to be made available to the ‘Public’?
It’s in the VL/Enterprise version and on TechNet/MSDN for subscribers but not available to purchasers of ‘Home and Business’ which will cover a lot of SMBs…some of which I know are using Exchange 2007 or 2010, in hosted if not local flavor, and would love have Communicator.
I suppose they can keep using Messenger 7.0.2 since that works…
@Brian Cross Office for Mac 2011 Standard is available for download from the VLSC website. If you can’t locate it, we recommend you contact VLSC for assistance 866 230-0560. It is also available as a download for MSDN Premium and Ultimate subscriptions from the MSDN website. If you need assistance with the MSDN website, you can contact MSDN 800 759-5474.
Created a Facebook group: Office For Mac SUCKS! join the revolution against Microsoft ripping off customers. £129 to get Outlook 2011. Are you kidding me?!
@Phil Bradham Unfortunately, no. Communicator 8 for Mac is available to volume licensing customers only.
With no way of communicating with SBS2003, this is a useless product to many and a greatly missed opportunity for Microsoft. I think some folks including myself would have paid more $$ just to have sbs2003 connectivity…., however i must say that after using another email account with the new outlook, it really isn’t that complete of an email program, it certainly isn’t outlook 2010 that’s for sure, it looks like ms has missed the bus yet again……and with all that time and resources put into it, glad i wasn’t the project manager…….
I completely echo David Chikwe and Stephen. I we cheated and deprived to not have Outlook in my Office for Mac 2011 H&S. Outlook Expresss and Entourage proved that Microsoft was partially in tune with and concern about Mac Users; however, no Outlook in my Technology Gaurantee upgrade just plain sucks! Sorry, but I’m never paying $130 for Outlook alone. This was the proverbial “straw” so goodbye MS.
While I’m interested with the features within this suite, I’m also a college student. This means that I’m working with teachers that, as a whole, use Office for their papers; when I email them something I have to export as a Word document, and that’s annoying.
However, I’m not about to spend $100 on a suite that I haven’t had a chance to test-drive. That’s a poor business decision; how many software producers don’t allow a trial of their product? Very few.
Here’s to hoping iWork updates soon.
A question about product registration.
I have the Home and Student Edition of Office 2011 which comes with a license for installation on up to three Macs. Do I only need to register once, or should the other users in the house also register their installations?
I want to report a bug in Powerpoint and even hopefully get some support. My Package says 1 year Tech support. I cannot sign up to the mactopia forums. Safari crashes when accessing the designated support URL. All other web paths want me to pay $200+ to have the privilege of reporting my problem. I guess 1 year of tech support means that I can’t even get any for $200 after that. What a lousy out-of-the-box experience; I was able to give a dissatisfied rating when registering without even using the product much. This bug will probably never get fixed either- certainly not if it can’t be reported.
Multi-Language Support on Office 2011.
Using the previous version of Office, for so so many years, or of my main concerns was the Multi-Language Integration which it lacked, which made me use The Windows Version of office via Parallel Desktop and in a way it is not the most efficient of manners.
Thus before I make such a purchase decision, I need to know if this matter has been looked into in Office 2011 (& specially for Middle Eastern or Asian language support – such as Hebrew, Arabic, Farci, etc)
Many thanks Office Team, & by the way, from what I have been reading, it is a brilliant advancements on the office for mac front. So great job, & I look forward to hearing from you.
Hi Folks
I have used MS products at work extensively and use a Mac at home. Until this release of Office I have not any of your products on my Mac. Why clutter up a great OS with pretty poor apps.
You’ve done great with Office 2011 and I’ve no doubt you will make further improvements along the way.
Congratulations and well done.
Steve
Downloaded Office 2011 today. It appears that the product has great potential. However, I was very disappointed to discover that Word 2011 has the exact same problem as Word 2008. Word 2011 still does not maximize correctly!
Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint do not have this issue thankfully. No matter what I do, Word 2011 leaves a gap along the left and the top of the screen allowing my wall paper to peek through. This is an issue that several of my clients have raised with me over the last two years. We were all hopeful that Office 2011 would cure this problem. Unfortunately, it has not.
I am not sure why this is a problem with Word while it is no longer a problem with Excel, Outlook nor PowerPoint. iWork does not have this problem nor does Open Office nor do most other Applications.
I would sure appreciate it if Microsoft could fix this issue with the first update. I am really getting tired of having to move my Word window up and to the left to and then extending the window to the right and downward a bit each time I start Word in order to work with a maximized window.
@Mac Mojo Team
Am I to believe that as a Team, you used brains to figure that the Professional user most likely has only 2 computers?? I mean, as you are a team, you presumably had Many brains collaborate, to eventually figure that the Professional probably has fewer computers than a Student or a Homebody with no job?
I am a Professional who has waited for the opportunity to get Outlook on 3 Apple Computers. That’s right, I am the *Rare* and *Sarcastic* Professional that works at the Office, on the Road, and at Home.
How do you suggest I plan on getting Outlook on 3 Computers? Or, more importantly to the point of this soon to be one-sided conversation, how do you plan on securing me as a DOUBLE PAYING customer for the umteenth slap in the face?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Microsoft+Office+2011+serial+crack
For the most part I like the look and feel of Office 2011. However, there is one issue that I was disappointed to discover. Word 2011 still does not maximize correctly and you cannot get Word to remember the Maximized window position.
Word 2011 still leaves a small gap of about 1mm on the left side of the Word window and about a 1mm gap between the top of the Word window and the OS X menu.
My clients and I have been reporting this problem in Word 2008 for over a year now. I purchased Office 2011 because an MS employee mentioned in Ars Technica that he thought this problem had been resolved. He was correct the problem had been resolved in Excel and PowerPoint. However, the problem has not been fixed in Word 2011.
I would like this problem fixed in the worst way. I am tired of having to move the Word window up and to the left and then expand the window to the right and downward each time I fire up Word just to have a maximized screen.
Do you have someone I could email and request a fix for this issue? I like Office a lot on both my Windows PC and on my Mac but this issue has been really bugging me.
Christian, also posted the following on another board:
I was a bit of annoyed when I realized that the Position of a new Word document still has a small gap to the left screen edge and to the top OSX menu as well – same as in Word 2008!
Come on – this bug is fixed in Excel 2011 and Powerpoint 2011 – why not Word as well?
Timothy656 on another board also writes:
I know that always bugged me! Since I have a 13inch screen I always wanted to get it fully maximized on start up!
Hello,
Could someone confirm exactly on how many computers one can install the Home & Business edition one can buy and download here @$279.99 ?
Is that a 2 license pack? What are the specific limitations of these installs?
It is absurd that this is not clearly mentioned here on the official Microsoft site. There’s not even a FAQ mentioning the specifics!
Thanks for any info
Wow – I really can’t understand what all the anger is about!!!
1) Office 2011 is a significant improvement on 2008
2) The ribbon is here to stay (for now) and is a vast improvement on the 2008 interface
3) Entourage was a nightmare – it constantly crashed. Perhaps that’s why some people are having problems with Outlook – they imported the beast that is the Entourage file?
4) I have managed to import all my mail from Apple’s Mail application with no significant issues
5) All of the apps load quickly, run smoothly and have minimal resource overheads – excellent work Microsoft
6) All my backup routines work well with the new Outlook file format
7) Of course Microsoft are not offering an upgrade – they said that several months ago in relation to Office 2010. For what you get, the software is not that expensive
9) Finally – none of the Office 2011 apps have crashed on me.
Hi – just wanted to say I LOVE Office for Mac 2011.
Outlook works great. Haven’t imported any of PST files yet but looking forward to trying it out.
A couple of things. I’d really like to be able to customise the ribbon in Outlook like you can in Word. I sort my mail in various ways and would like to quickly be able to flip back to Conversation view so it would be great if I could put that option onto my ‘home’ ribbon. The second one is a biggie – copying and pasting attachments. It’s really annoying having to drag and drop all the time or else save them somewhere first. Fix those two things and Outlook for Mac will be a dream come true
Thanks for listening to us, Microsoft. We’ve been waiting a long time for this – but you’ve really released a great product this time!
If you bought Office for Mac 2008 Home and Student with the “technology guarantee” be prepared to LOSE FUNCTIONALITY. Outlook is not included in the supposed upgrade.
Why I can’t change the language of the menus and interface ???
It’s annoying, 2010 and Office 2011 haven’t got language installation menu or language selector in preferences.
I like the look and feel, but I think the debugging team didn’t look hard at this release. The Works Cited feature lists articles in non-alphabetical order (when APA format specifies alphabetical). It also acts like a bibliography (showing all articles in the library, not just those referenced in the document).
A bit sloppy. What else will we find? When can we expect 14.0.1?
We have several testers and we’re finding OL 2011 more stable than Apple Mail or Entourage when used with Exchange 2010. Haven’t tested IMAP or older servers.
Our students are able to buy Office 2011 for $15 through one of our academic volume licenses. If you’re a student, you should ask you school if they arranged for this for you.
This is clearly a version 1 product. Stable for us but missing several enterprise features including something as simple as resending a message and a failure in merging to email (the many messages sit in Drafts and have to be sent one by one — horrible).
The help topics are incomplete whether local or online.
For those, including David Pogue, who complain the ribbon takes too much room, have you actually measured? I did a screen shot of Word 2008 and printed it. Then I upgraded and did the same with Word 2011. Less than 5% of typing space lost. If you minimize the ribbon (only 1 click to do so), you actually have more vertical space than Word 2008.
On behalf of our end users, when will it be available in HUP? There should be no reason for this delay.
@Mac Mojo Team
Will there be any further comment from Microsoft on the loss of Outlook (Entourage replacement) for us H&S 2011 customers, or the fact that to get Outlook costs $279.99 for us? It would be nice if you just explained to us why we lost ALL email/calendaring/contact application support in our Mac Office 2011 suite. Thank you.
thanks for soft ware
Anyone else noticed the bug in Outlook when you have conversations turned on? Emails with no subject all get lumped in to the same conversation! I took a screenshot, see here: http://yfrog.com/5l74ip
Also, why can’t you change the ribbon appearance in Outlook like you can in Word? Inconsistent.
@Lester Dronick You’ll see that when you install the new suite it will prompt you for your product ID at each point of installation.
@Steve Sorry to hear you’re having issues and can’t log in to the forum, we’re working to address that now. We will contact a support specialist and get back to you. Thanks for your patience.
Just curious, lots of great questions about things like trials and upgrades yet no answers – where to these comments go? Does anyone at MSFT care? just askin’
One of the biggest frustrations I’ve had with Office for Mac has been the lack of Pivotchart support (like in the Windows version). It wasn’t in Office 2004, 2008 and it appears not to be in 2011 either — even though Office 2011 is meant to bring Mac functionality more in line with that of Windows…
Why aren’t there Pivotcharts?
I will not buy it until MS Office for MAC supports RTL languages.
I never got my confirmation e-mail, and it’s not in my spam box. I contacted MS, but never got an answer! What should I do? Any help around here!?!
Office 2011 for mac looks great.
Huge potencial and the best Office for mac ever. No doubt.
But the execution is so poor… Crashy, buggy, slow, with UI inconsistencies….
Messenger for Mac is just awful, hardly works for 10 minutes, bloated, busy, but without the features one would expect from a Messenger client.
And that folder on my Documents folder?
That’s offensive, an insult, stupid.
What a shame.
…and why doesn’t messenger look at all like the screenshots you have on its page?
Hi.
Is there a SDK for developers that want to develop Word Add-Ins for Mac Office Word 2011?
VBA and AppleScript are not an option. This is for developing support for people with handicap (Special needs).
I understand that the COM interfaces are not exposed on the Mac but is there something similar?
A SDK would be nice.
Regards,
Björn Sveinbjörnsson
I have video playback issues with PPT 2011 (and 2008) when using the Presenter Tools – many dropped frames. I can’t use it like this, and would like to know if there is some way that I could help in getting this problem resolved.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
@Steve Hume I am sorry to hear about your experience with PowerPoint and Mactopia. Have you tried accessing the Mactopia forum using a different browser? You may post your question on the #OFM2011 forum or we may post your question on your behalf http://bit.ly/aULu6r. If you would like to provide feedback regarding an issue with PowerPoint, we may forward that on your behalf as well. If so, please provide details regarding the issue.
If you go to the FAQ section of the Office for Mac 2011 page (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/faq), there is a tab labeled “trial coming soon”. Do you think it will be out in days?
I CAN’T SEE ALL OF MY EMAIL ATTACHMENTS!
I imported a .pst file from my PC (Windows 7, Outlook 2007) using “import” in Outlook Office:Mac 2011 on my new MacBook pro I purchased Sept 29, 2010.
I can see attachments from emails that originated from PCs but not from Apple Entrourage 2004….. Arrrrrggghhhhhh!!
IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS? ANY FIXES?
I called tech support for Outlook Office:Mac 2011 no has any answers.
Do not rush out to buy it. It is missing so many easy essentials that were in MAC, and adds nothing that you could not do in ENTOURAGE. (Aside from syncing etc. If you are using emails, contacts and calenders without needing the power of OUTLOOK (sharing etc) do not upgrade. I am really disappointed, but to late to go back.
@Doug M We are looking into your issue and will get back to you when we have more information. Sorry for your troubles.
@Timothy Sorry you’re having issues. We are looking into this issue and will follow up with you soon. Thanks for your patience.
Word 14.01 (2011) fails to maximize the program window correctly.
If you have a small screen maximizing a window can give you more usable space. Therefore, having the ability to fully maximize a window improves usability.
My clients and I are just asking that Word maximize correctly just like Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
This problem carries over from 2008. In 2008 Word, Excel, PowerPoint had this problem. Now in 2011 Word continues to have this almost three year old problem and you cannot get Word to remember the Maximized window position. Word 2011 still leaves a small gap of about 1mm on the left side of the Word window and about a 1mm gap between the top of the Word window and the OS X menu
Microsoft has known about this problem for at least a year. My clients and I have been reporting this problem in Word for over a year now. I purchased Office 2011 because an MS employee mentioned in Ars Technica that he thought this problem had been resolved. He was correct, the problem has been resolved in Excel and PowerPoint but not Word. I would like this problem and others fixed in the worst way. I am tired of having to move the Word window up and to the left and then expand the window to the right and downward each time I fire up Word just to have a maximized screen.
My clients and I are not the only ones who care about this issue:
Christian, also posted the following on Mactopia:
“I was a bit of annoyed when I realized that the Position of a new Word document still has a small gap to the left screen edge and to the top OSX menu as well – same as in Word 2008! Come on – this bug is fixed in Excel 2011 and Powerpoint 2011 – why not Word as well?”
YouTube:
“I know that always bugged me! Since I have a 13inch screen I always wanted to get it fully maximized on start up!”
Ars Technica:
“When I open a window, its default position is separated from the toolbars by a few pixels. If I click the green Zoom button, the right edge of the windows goes _almost_ to the right edge of the screen, but not quite. It’s as if someone at Microsoft is deliberately flouting Fitt’s Law:
In this position, “missing” a toolbar click or title bar drag by a few pixels can end of bringing a different application to the fore. Ditto missing the right scrollbar. I can’t imagine a use case where a user would want to click into the tiny little crevice between a document and its toolbar to bring out the window hiding behind it. I also can’t imagine a use case where the user mouses all the way over to the right side of the screen with the intention of _just_ missing the scrollbar. But I have experience many real-world cases where such behavior annoys this particular use immensely.”
(Note: For clarity purposes I substituted window for workbook)
Ditto on the upgrade issue. For a product this expensive, one expects an upgrade option. WAY TOO MUCH MONEY for Outlook. The only real reason for me to upgrade is Outlook, to maintain access to my legacy Windows Outlook files.
Let me know when you will deign to treat Mac Users fairly.
Regards,
Rich
Installed Outlook for Mac 2011 … can’t send a new message. Dialog box prompts me to rebuild the database every time. Come on, really?
For those (like me) who are stuck with receiving Exchange 2003 email until our workplace upgrades, I found a solution that works with Outlook 2003.
It’s called DavMail. I saw it in a link on the Apple Support forums. All of the instructions were for Apple’s Mail.app, but I decided to apply everything to Outlook 2011, and by golly, it works!
I did not try contacts or calendar instructions since I only needed email, but I am able to both receive and send my work email from Outlook 2011 now. Before, all I could do was to receive it and send via another email account or go to the online web access site.
I have no connection with this company, but I’m very impressed. If you’re interested go to
https://delta.indwes.edu/exchange/
Problem Description: I am trying to work more efficiently and by trying to avoid clicking “smooth start and smooth end” in effect options.
What I mean is when I had Microsoft office 2008 Home and student for Mac, whenever I added a animation effect to a object (to be specific, the “fly in” effect) it would by default – make the object have a smooth start and smooth end. However, ever since upgrading to Microsoft Office 2011 Home and business – when I add a “Fly in” effect to a object, it does NOT have a smooth start and smooth end.
I compensate by highlighting the object in the “Animation reorder” window, clicking on the drop-down bar “Effect options” and enable the smooth start and smooth end.
However, I used to use a lot of the “Fly in” effect, and Have become quite a fan of how good it looks to have the smooth start and smooth end in my presentations.
It takes a painstakingly long time to get the animations the way i want them VS. the 2008 Office version due to this.
Could you please add a option, perhaps to make smooth start and end default?
Above, I meant “a solution that works without Outlook -2011-.”
Wow, it’s my day for typos. The correct address for DavMail is http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
If a moderator want to simply fix my first message and delete these last two, that’s fine.
Have I done something very bad for my comment of the 28th October to still be pending moderation?!
@Sergi Sorry you’re having problems with Outlook. The team is working on solving, but in the meantime please check out our forum or submit your crash log: http://bit.ly/bJSUMQ
I bought Office for Mac 2008 Student and Home Edition in the middle of September specifically because of Outlook as an upgrade. Nowhere did it ever say this was not an upgrade; on the contrary, a rep even mentioned that it would be. Do I seriously have to BUY this again? Is there NOT an automatic upgrade like I was told before?
I bought Office:Mac 2011 last week and I’ve had nothing but problems. It is continually crashing my whole system. I’m not happy and even lesser impressed
Hello
I am wondering, if Addin SDK will ever be available for outer developers, and if yes, on which conditions? (Word 2011)
Thanks, George
SAME SITUATION!:
ron says:
October 27, 2010 at 6:55 am
Microsoft Office 2011 is ‘available’?? Really???!!!!!
I bought 2008 and am eligible for the 2011 upgrade. I goto the web site provided http;//www.microsoft.com/mac/techg and IT WON”T ACCEPT MY 2008 product keys. It says:
“Product key entered has previously been used…”
Of course it has previously been used!!! It is my Office 2008 PKey! What was I supposed to do “Buy 2008 and then NOT use it?!” Who is the tiny brained micro engineer that came up with that one?
This is AFTER I completed the “REGISTERED MY OFFICE FOR mAC 2011″ process and got a Customer Number that proves I registered it.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH MICROSOFT? ARE THEY TRYING TO ALIENATE EXISTING CUSTOMERS SO THAT APPLE WILL HAVE A BIGGER SHARE OF THE WP MARKET?
@jenn Sorry to hear you’re having issues with our new suite. The Office for Mac team is aware of some issues and working to iron them out. In the meantime please submit your crash report to our forum to make sure we receive it. Thanks for your patience. http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/
My Oct 28 question regarding input support for Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Tamil, Thai, or Tibetan was never answered here. But in the Office Help I found a list of supported keyboards, which seems to indicate the Tamil can be done. I need to do some tests, because that was claimed for Office 2008 as well, but turned out to be incorrect.
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/11/ms-office-2011-language-support.html
Recognizing that Office 2008 was a waste of money, no macros and incompatible with Windows versions (2010 dates are opened as 2014), I got 2011. While I’m impressed with some of the features, there are many issues with crashing, printing, and some features (ie: remove objects) that were left off. But worse, the support website is full of dead links. It refuses to send validation emails for the forum, leaving one to guess and look for workarounds. for $200 I expected at least a working forum.
Much of the help information is still oriented to 2008 that should have been buried long ago with the program.
What version will be available via the Home Use Program in January of 2011, the Home & Student, or the Home & Business. The world is desperately in need of Outlook on the Mac, given Outlook and iCal’s collective inability to interface in terms of meeting requests, and Entourage’s limited capability.
Love the new Word and Excel. Outlook was highly disappointing.
1. Upgrade from Entourage crashed.
2. Recover from Entourage crash, crashed.
3. Cleared profile/user & started over only importing messages.
4. Import seemed ok but was then flakey. sorts weren’t always working etc.
5. My officemate imported ok, but after import the mail window vanished. She ould never get it back.
And so on… finally we just abanded the idea of upgrading.
Starting fresh, no import, things seemed ok, but the ribbon and toolbar combo is super awkward. Why can’t I move/delete items on the ribbon. Why is delete right next to reply. Why are the icons so big, etcetera. Overall it feels like a beta… but then again Entourage feels a little long in the tooth, so overall Outlook is a big disappointment.
I have been able to upgrade from 2008 to 2011, but when I try to purchase a backup disc, I can’t get through the payment process. It gets stuck and can’t find the server to finish the submission.
Issue:
In Excel 11.
If for instance I have one excel worksheet open (doc a) and want to print that to a PDF, I choose
>PRINT
>SAVE TO PDF
I name it and save it
Then if I want to change the SAME excel sheet with new figures and save that to PDF as well (doc b)… I edit the Excel doc to reflect the changes I want then:
>PRINT
>SAVE TO PDF
I name it and save it as before
When I compare both PDFs. Both PDFs have the same Excel figures as the LAST edit. ie both are doc b.
This is really annoying.
Why Why Why Why did you leave Outlook Today out of Outlook for Mac. That is my favorite thing microsoft has done. How hard could it be to include that. How hard? Why not give us the option. Please add it.
Does anyone know if Office 2011 for Mac supports multi-language editing (English & Arabic)? I don’t care about spell checking, I just want to be able to create and edit a document in both languages. I know I can do that in Office for Windows but could not do it in Office for Mac. If it is supported, how do you switch between languages in Mac (Alt+Shift in Office Windows).
Thanks
@Adam Wells Thanks for giving us a heads up and sorry you’re having that problem. Please submit your issue to our forum and let us know if you still can’t find a solution: http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Excel/2858/0
@Jon Outlook for Mac 2011 has a similar feature called My Day. Find out more about My Day here: http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/outlook/item/e5fb1bd1-72cb-417e-8ea2-bda0caaee8b5
@Imad Kato Unfortunately, Arabic and other right-to-left languages, are not supported in Office for Mac 2011 due to technology limitations on the text input tools. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Since I started using my Mac in what 1988, I enjoyed the fact that I could call things what I wanted.
So if I put a date in a filename I could use 22/12 (to quote today). Office up to and including Office 2008 supported this.
Now with 2011 I get an error saying that because the filename includes some “illegal character” (namely a | \ ” or /) Word 2011 refuses to open it.
So to use Office 2011, I’m forced to adopt the restrictive Windows Centric naming conventions (i.e. I have to manually rename almost every document on my machine) to even open a document.
Please tell me why I shouldn’t either:
1. Stay at Office 2008.
2. Move to Open Office
3. Move to Pages / Numbers
Nor do my clients, each of whom have 100+ seat locations.
And then the added “feature” that while VBA is supposedly back, items written for 2004 don’t run in 2011.
@Mark Gibson Take a look at some of these threads on our forum and let us know if it helps answer your question:
http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Office/7210
http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Word/12335
Microsoft set up a website for Office 2011 Suite, and Office 2008 for Macintosh. There are severe problems for some Mac computers.
One is fonts. If some fonts are corrupted Word will not run.
If it still will not run, then restart your computer in the safety mode.
I am using Office 2011 for the Mac. I have changes in my document that are highlighted. I want to get rid of the Tracked Changes. I can select View, Without Markup, but the changes still show up when I open the document the next time. What I really want to do is Accept All Changes. But the button for accepting changes in the Changes section of the Review tab is dimmed. And then I want to have it stop tracking changes in this document, but the Track Changes While Editing button is checked, but dimmed, so I can’t uncheck it in the Highlight Changes section of the Track Changes part under the Tools menu. HELP!